Commitment to Diversity, Equity, Inclusion & Belonging
Quest is committed to creating and maintaining a workplace that enables all employees to participate and contribute towards the organization's success. We recognize and appreciate our employees' unique skills, experiences, and diverse viewpoints. Our policies and operational procedures reflect this core principle essential to efficient business management.
Quest is committed to fostering, cultivating, and preserving a diversity, equity, and inclusion culture. Our human capital is the most valuable asset we have. The collective sum of the individual differences, life experiences, knowledge, inventiveness, innovation, self-expression, unique capabilities, and talent that our employees invest in their work represents a significant part of our culture, reputation, and Quest's achievement.
We embrace and encourage our employees' differences in age, color, disability, ethnicity, family or marital status, gender identity or expression, language, national origin, physical and mental ability, political affiliation, race, religion, sexual orientation, socio-economic status, veteran status, and other characteristics that make our employees unique.
Quest's diversity initiatives are applicable—but not limited—to our practices and policies on recruitment and selection, compensation and benefits, professional development and training, promotions, transfers, social and recreational programs, layoffs, terminations, and the ongoing
development of a work environment built on the premise of gender and diversity equity that encourages and enforces:
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Respectful communication and cooperation among all employees are required. We expect
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everyone to uphold professionalism.
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Teamwork and employee participation are essential for diverse perspectives and better decision- making.
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Flexible work schedules promote work-life balance and improve productivity and job satisfaction.
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Employers and employees contribute to our communities to promote diversity and mutual respect.
At Quest, employees treat others with dignity and respect, exhibiting conduct that reflects inclusion during work hours and at work-related functions and events sponsored by Quest. To fulfill this responsibility, all employees must attend and complete annual diversity awareness training to enhance their knowledge of promoting a more inclusive environment.